Cinema quotes

“Television is better than it's ever been in history. A lot of stories are being pushed - because of how complicated they are to make - toward Netflix and other channels on cable.”
Leonardo DiCaprio

“Paris is terribly expensive and I don't see how anyone would do a picture here for reasons of economy. It must be something else. Perhaps it's what the French call 'ambiance'.”
Anthony Perkins

“The bigger the picture, the bigger the ticket, the better.”
Burt Lancaster

“There are times when I want to get out of the business. Everybody wants to make these big epic entertainments. They're empty. And worst of all, a lot of them just aren't very well made, but the critics go overboard.”
Burt Lancaster

“Maybe show business is getting to be a lost art. It used to be if a kid was hit at the theater when they had 'amateur night', a scout would see hima nd get him a break in burlesque, or in a medicine show, or the circus. Then if they had what it took he'd latch on in vaudeville. Finally maybe he'd be ready for Broadway in a musical for Ziegfeld...” (continue)(continue reading)
Al Jolson

“I did not come to Hollywood in the first place because there were fame, riches, and glamour to be gained here. I came here because this is the place where pictures are made, many of them very excellent, and I felt that here was opportunity for the actress.”
Ingrid Bergman

“It would have been more logical if silent movies had grown out of the talkies instead of the other way round.”
Mary Pickford

“The movie people would have nothing to do with me until they heard me speak in a Broadway play, then they all wanted to sign me for the silent movies.”
W.C. Fields

“This business has a lot to do with sex and sex appeal. People tend to think of sexuality as the main ingredient you people have to offer. I beg to differ. I think older people exude bundles of sexuality. It's just that older men and women tend not to run around like cats and dogs in heat.”
Jacqueline Bisset

“If you're gonna talk about World War II as if you personally won it, let's be clear where you were stationed - on a film set, shooting blanks, wearing makeup, and if you're going to hit me, I'd like to take off my glasses.”

Bryan Cranston - Dalton Trumbo

“A man can make more money with less effort in the movies than in any other profession.”
George Sanders

“I'm a whore, all actors are whores. We sell our bodies to the highest bidder.”
William M. Holden

“I don't care for the movie racket much in England, but in Hollywood it is much worse.”
Noel Pierce Coward

“Kids shouldn't see all the violence they do these days. But the industry just doesn't care.”
Linda Blair

“Broadway has been very good to me. But I've been very good to Broadway, too.”
Ethel Merman

“Here at Capitol Pictures, as you know, millions of people look to us for information, and uplift, and, yes, entertainment. And we’re gonna give it to ’em.”
Josh Brolin - Eddie Mannix

“- Andre Romulus 'Dre' Ellis: 'Cause he's Humphrey Bogart. He's the man. Yo, he was fightin' a war. That's what they did back then.
- Chris 'Cav' Anton Vichon: You know what he needed to do back then? He needed to stop fine-ass Ingrid Bergman from gettin' on the plane with the corny dude. And then, he gonna walk off in the fog with some other...” (continue)(continue reading)
Taye Diggs - Andre Romulus 'Dre' Ellis
Yasiin Bey - Chris 'Cav' Anton Vichon

“- Cecil: They talk out loud in the theatre once the feature has begun.
- Honey: Oh, that really is unforgivable, Fidget.
- Fidget: Okay, okay! My parents are the enemies of film!”

Stephen Dorff - Cecil
Melanie Griffith - Honey Whitlock
Eric Barry - Fidget

“Here at Capitol Pictures, as you know, an army of technicians, actors, and top notch artistic people are working hard to bring to the screen the story of the Christ. It's a swell story.”
Josh Brolin - Eddie Mannix

“Don't go thinking we sacrifice quality. I never make more than two motion pictures a week, but I'll spend up to a thousand dollars on each of 'em if I have to.”
Dan Aykroyd - Mack Sennett

“Hollywood will fuck you when no-one else will.”
Mike Starr - Det. Russ Millard

“Sam Fuller, the American no-talent embraced by those French derelicts.”

Will Keenan - Casey Kaufman

“- Tony Mendez: Can you teach somebody to be a director in a day?
- John Chambers: You can teach a rhesus monkey to be a director in a day.”
Ben Affleck - Tony Mendez
John Goodman - John Chambers

“I can't separate cinema from my life. The two things are interrelated and enrich or impoverish each other.”
Carlos Saura

“A cinema villain essentially needs a moustache so he can twiddle with it gleefully as he cooks up his next nasty plan. ”
Mel Brooks